You are correct in noting that Data Management does not allow you to use your own database to store offline data.  This data is exclusively managed by the LCDS library for the developer.  The intent is that the local cache is a reflection of the server data, not an independent copy.If you have an ex...

Yes, they were resolved. Protective code was added to these methods in 2009 to handle the case where no MessageBroker is available.You are using an old version of LCDS.Tom

Look at registering your own BootstrapService (See docs here).  You can do anything you want in such a service (not just register runtime destinations) and the stop() method will get called when the MessageBroker servlet stop() method is called.  You could then kill your threads here.You could just ...

Good news!  There is a fix for this issue already available. You can get it through Adobe support for LCDS 3.1. Ask for hotfix #293057.  Actually, I would ask for all the fixes.   We plan on trying to create a cumulative hotfix for 3.1 before the end of the year, which will make this easier.It is a...

Nothing has changed in the Flex SDK sources for this class since sometime around 2008. Are you running against the same LCDS server as you were before you updated to Flex 4?  This certainly seems strange (and bad).  Do you see the same behavior with Flex 4.5?  What was the version of Flex you were u...

Try capturing the fault with a fault handler added to the token returned from connect().var token:AsyncToken = productService.serviceControl.connect();token.addResponder(new Responder(resultFunction, faultFunction));You can then capture the offline state when the connection fails.Tom

If you are not using Flex, then the hooks are not executed.Tom Jordahl

ItemPending errors means that the data services client is going to fetch an item that was marked as lazy or load-on-demand.  This should be an expected event and handled by any AS code that touches an array collection that has lazy items in it.  For instance the AsyncListView component in Flex autom...

oops, sorry I was still stuck on Async and you were asking about getItem().Tom

Sorry, everything in Flash/Actionscript is async, even though it would be nice sometimes if it wasn't.Tom